Eye of Zyclone wrote: ↑Sun Apr 13, 2025 4:18 am
The gross absurdities in Gerstein's "report" compelled Léon Poliakov, the king of antirevisionist historians in France, to back-pedal and finally say that the
star witness Kurt Gerstein had seen an extermination camp "only once and from a distance" ("qu'une seule fois, et d'un peu loin").
These desperate explanations fall apart completely if you go back and reread the original statements. This "only once and from a distance" is totally at odds with what's in Gerstein's statement (PS-1553).
Heckenholt was the man in charge of the ‘Diesel’ engine, the exhaust gases of which were to kill these poor devils. SS Unterscharfuehrer Heckenholt tries to set the Diesel engine moving. But it does not start! Captain Wirth comes along. It is plain that he is afraid because I am a witness to this breakdown. Yes, indeed, I see everything and wait. Everything is registered by my stopwatch. 50 minutes, 70 minutes – the Diesel engine does not start! The people wait in their gas chambers. In vain. One can hear them cry. ‘Same as in a synagogue’, says SS Sturmbannführer Professor Dr. Pfannenstiel, Professor for Public Health at the University of Marburg/Lahn, holding his ear close to the wooden door. Captain Wirth, furious, deals the Ukrainian who is helping Heckenholt 11 or 12 lashes in the face with his whip. After 2 hours and 49 minutes, as registered by my stopwatch, the Diesel engine starts. Up to that moment the people in the four already filled chambers were alive, 4 times 750 persons in 4 times 45 cubic meters. Another 25 minutes go by. Many of the people, it is true, are dead at that point. One can see this through the little window through which the electric lamp reveals, for a moment, the inside of the chamber. After 28 minutes only a few are living. After 32 minutes, finally, all are dead! From the other side, Jewish workers open the wooden doors.
He is describing direct, personal involvement in the gassings and claims he was right there tracking everything with the stopwatch.
Not only this, he claims that he was sent on a mission for the express purpose of reviewing the gassing procedure and helping transition the AR camp exterminations from diesel to Zyklon B. Observing the gassings was a major part of his mission (supposedly). The huge blunders in his statements are therefore completely inexcusable.
Globocnek then said: You will have to handle the sterilization of very huge quantities of clothes, 10 or 20 times the result of the clothes and textile collection (Spinnstoffsammlung) which is only arranged in order to conceal the source of these Jewish, Polish, Czech, and other clothes. Your other duties will be to change the method of our gas chambers (which are run at the present time with the exhaust gases of an old ‘Diesel’ engine), employing more poisonous material, having a quicker effect, prussic acid. But the Fuehrer and Himmler who were here on 15 August – the day before yesterday – ordered that I accompany personally all those who are to see the installations.